Ὑμήν

See also: ὑμήν

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ὑμέναιος (Huménaios)

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /hymɛ͜ɛ́n/

• (1st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /hyméːn/

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ymín/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ymín/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /imín/

Proper noun

Ὑμήν • (Humḗn) m (genitive Ὑμένος); third declension

1. Hymen or Hymenaios

Inflection

Third declension of Ὑμήν, Ὑμένος

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	Ὑμήν
Genitive	Ὑμένος
Dative	Ὑμένῐ
Accusative	Ὑμένᾰ
Vocative	Ὑμήν

Descendants

• Greek: Υμήν (Ymín), Υμένας (Yménas)
• Latin: Hymen

References

• Ὑμήν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013